Mothership at CLICK FEST 2026

Vanderburg's composition Mothership was selected for performance at CLICK FEST 2026, a juried electronic music festival hosted by Ohio University.

Roaming in Thought Receives United Kingdom Performances through Vox Novus' Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame

Roaming in Thought was performed in Oxford and Mere, England through Vox Novus' Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project for baritone Andrew White.

Tempest in a Teakettle at Forum Wallis

Vanderburg's Tempest in a Teakettle was selected for performance at the 2026 Ars Electronica Forum Wallis, an international juried festival of contemporary electroacoustic music.

You Cant Outrun Your Daydreams at MUSLAB Planeta Complejo 2026

You Can't Outrun Your Daydreams was invited for presentation in MUSLAB's 2026 Planeta Complejo exhibition at Mexico City's Centro de Cultura Digital.

Composition Pedagogy and the Creative Ecosystem of Lifelong Learning at the CMS Central Conference

Vanderburg's presentation on composition pedagogy was accepted for the 2026 College Music Society Central Chapter Conference, highlighting lifelong creative development and educational practice.

Honorable Mention

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Composition Pedagogy and the Creative Ecosystem of Lifelong Learning

Tape Piece

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Roaming in Thought

Composition Pedagogy and the Creative Ecosystem of Lifelong Learning

Theme and Conversation

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Miniwashitu

Earmarks

National Finalist

National Finalist

Commission

Tempest in a Teakettle

Press Any Key To Continue

Miniwashitu

Contrabassoon Character Piece Project

You Can’t Outrun Your Daydreams

Joyride

Electronic Masters Vol. 10

Debugging the Composer: designing a tool for self-reported composition processes

The Earth Shall Soon Dissolve Like Snow

Tape Piece

National Finalist

Tape Piece

You Can’t Outrun Your Daydreams

Innovation in Teaching Award

Inspiration/Perspiration: Creating a Map of the Music Composition Creative Process

You Can’t Outrun Your Daydreams

Letters to the Poetry Editor

You Can’t Outrun Your Daydreams

National Finalist & Honorable Mention

The Mess of Music Creativity

Reverie of Solitude

Mnemosyne

Tape Piece

Letters to the Poetry Editor

Blueprints of Eternity

Winner

National Finalist

Commission

Tempest in a Teakettle

Inspiration/Perspiration: Creating a Map of the Music Composition Creative Process

Tape Piece

Tape Piece

Tape Piece

Battling the Novelty of Creation and other thoughts about starting to create music

Tape Piece

Blueprints of Eternity

National Finalist

National Finalist

Commission

Tape Piece

Crosswinds

Tape Piece

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Remnants of Creation

Blueprints of Eternity

Tape Piece

The Wondrous Mess of Music Creativity

Tape Piece

Golden Lala Awards 2020 – Honorable Mention

Third Place (Tie)

Commission

Inspiration/Perspiration: Creating a Map of the Music Composition Creative Process

The Earth Shall Soon Dissolve Like Snow

Inspiration/Perspiration: Creating a Map of the Music Composition Creative Process

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Tempest in a Teakettle

An Inbox Full of Music: Teaching Composition Over the Internet

Tempest in a Teakettle

Inaugural Faculty Fellow

Inspiration/Perspiration: Creating a Map of the Music Composition Creative Process

Cloud Music: Audience participation in electronic music

Tempest in a Teakettle

The Notes Between The Notes

Commission

Reverie of Solitude

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Reverie of Solitude

Page Not Found: Maintaining a Digital Presence

Austerity

Earmarks

Commission

Commission

Commission

Tempest in a Teakettle

Tempest in a Teakettle

Austerity

How Composers are Made

Tempest in a Teakettle

Tempest in a Teakettle

Reverie of Solitude

Tempest in a Teakettle

Caffeination

Tempest in a Teakettle

Commission

Remnants of Creation

Caffeination

Joyride

Inspiration/Perspiration: Tracking the Compositional Process

Valuing our music and our craft

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Automation and Autonomy

Reverie of Solitude

Remnants of Creation

Reactions

Finalist

Commission

Reverie of Solitude

Crosswinds: audience, performance, and compositional considerations in electroacoustic music

Reverie of Solitude

Reverie of Solitude

Reverie of Solitude

Reverie of Solitude

Reverie of Solitude

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Reverie of Solitude

Cascades

Semi-finalist

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Blueprints of Eternity

Best Student Composition

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

MaxMSP and Novel Interfaces

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Blueprints of Eternity

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Blueprints of Eternity

Semi-finalist

Ernest Trumble Award for Outstanding Graduate Term Paper in Music History or Ethnomusicology

Commission

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Blueprints of Eternity

Poster: Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Creatures from the Black Bassoon

Member

Alice and Albert Kirkpatrick Scholarship in Composition

Robberson Conference Presentation/Creative Exhibition Travel Grant

Ernest Trumble Award for Outstanding Graduate Term Paper in Music History or Ethnomusicology

First Place

Student Travel Scholarship

ASCAP PLUS

Foi dans l'aléatoire

Commission

Residency

Pipe Dreams